Violinist Jeremy Desiderio Comments On World Premiere Of Butterfly Whispers

The Delaware County Symphony will host The Academy of International Ballet, under the artistic direction of Anastasia Babayeva and Denis Gronostayskiy, for their upcoming chamber concert. Three of the compositions to be performed will feature classical ballet dancers who will perform new choreography to two classical masterpieces by Smetana and Liszt and an original composition by Jennifer Nicole Campbell.

The concert will also feature pianists Dasha Bukhartseva and Jennifer Nicole Campbell playing piano four hands.

The program opens with Franz Schubert’s Fantasy in F Minor followed by the performance of a World Premiere composition titled “Butterfly Whispers” composed by the symphony’s Artist in Residence Ms. Jennifer Nicole Campbell with original choreography by AIB.

Included in this concert is a breathtakingly beautiful work composed by Jennifer Nicole Campbell for the ballet dancers. In the words of the symphony's violinist Jeremy Desiderio,

"This highly intimate work with its sparse, delicate textures and subtle harmonies cannot help but cause one to imagine the wonders of nature at work in all their beauty and mystery. The music is rather dreamlike; listening to it gives the impression of weightlessness, of fantasy, of reverie. It seems to describe something that is directly before our eyes, right under our noses, yet we cannot see it, touch it or hear it; we can simply describe it as we imagine it to be."

The concert continues with Maurice Ravel’s Three Poems of Mallarme featuring mezzo-soprano Katherine Skovira. The concert concludes with AIB dancers performing original choreography to Vltava (“Die Moldau”) from Ma vlast by Bedrich Smetana and Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

The Meagher Theatre is in the Thomas A. Bruder, Jr. Life Center at Neumann University, One Neumann Drive, Aston, PA 19014. Concert tickets are $12 or $10 for seniors/students. Please note no other special ticket discounts apply for this concert. There is ample free parking adjacent to the theatre and the Life Center is handicapped accessible. For information call 610-879-7059 or visit www.dcsmusic.org

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